Champagne Lab

Psychobiology, Epigenetics & Neuroscience

Rahia Mashoodh - 5th year PhD

Prior to joining the PhD program in the Psychology Department at Columbia University, I completed my Bachelors' (2005) and Masters' (2008) degrees in Neuroscience at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) where I studied hormonal, developmental and environmental influences on sex differences in brain and behaviour.

Research Overview

I am interested in how social experiences acquired across the lifespan could be inherited by, and impose specific developmental trajectories, upon on future generations of offspring via their influences on pre- and postnatal environments. Further, I am interested in the adaptive significance of epigenetic changes and their implications for the evolution of behavioural traits.